They hate us more than they value truth...

That's the conclusion I've come to. After all the economic data, foreign policy debacles and clear loyalty to an ideology which fails every time it's tried, I have determined that those still supporting President Barack Hussein Obama simply hate the "other side" more than they value intellectual honesty. There is no sane defense of this man. And the Libya scandal is making that horrifyingly clear.

This is an issue I've taken particular interest in, and there have been shocking new developments today (source). When the attack started, around 9:40pm 9/11/12, the two ex-Navy SEALS Doherty and Woods were at a secure CIA annex only one mile away from the chaos unfolding at the consulate/compound. After the men heard shots fired, they promptly let the chain of command know about the situation on the ground. However, sources now claim that they were told to refrain from action. This same mandate was again given to the men when they called a second time just one hour later to report that the dangerous situation was still unfolding at the consulate.

According to three newly released emails dispatched on the afternoon of September 11—as the attack was underway—the State Department Operations Center alerted multiple government offices, including the Pentagon, the CIA and other intelligence agencies, and the White House Situation Room (including the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper) that the assault was happening. The first email, timed at 4:05 p.m. Washington time – or 10:05 p.m. Benghazi time, 20-30 minutes after the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission allegedly began – carried the subject line ‘U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack’ and the notation ‘SBU,’ meaning ‘Sensitive But Unclassified.’ The email said the State Department’s regional security office had reported the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was ‘under attack.Embassy in Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well.’ The message continued: ‘Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support.’

Fox News' Jennifer Griffin (chief National Security correspondent) is reporting that despite those alerts to the highest halls of government her sources have confirmed that a total of three urgent requests for military assistance were sent from that CIA annex and all three were all denied. In addition to the two SEALS, CIA operators within the annex, with rapid deploy capabilities, were also told to “stand down."

Doherty and Woods allegedly disobeyed orders from superiors to “stand down” in the wake of the attack and decided to go to the main consulate building to help U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and others who were under siege. At least two others, along with elements of the CIA Quick Reaction Force also ignored those orders and made their way to the Consulate which at that point was on fire. The quick reaction force evacuated those who remained at the Consulate and Sean Smith (a US diplomat), who had been killed in the initial attack.

A second email, headed ‘Update 1: U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi’ and timed 4:54 p.m. Washington time, said that the Embassy in Tripoli had reported that “the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi had stopped and the compound had been cleared.’ It said a ‘response team’ was at the site "attempting to locate missing personnel.”

In the end they could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight. After arriving back at the annex, the incident was far from over for the security team, which at this point still included Woods and Doherty. An attack was launched on the annex — this one more intense than the initial assault on the main building. At that point, they called again for military support, reporting they were taking fire at the annex. The request was denied.

 On Thursday Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s responded to questions surrounding military reaction saying that forces did not intervene because officials did not have enough “real-time information” about what was happening on the ground, “The basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on, without having some real-time information about what’s taking place, and as a result of not having that kind of information…[we] felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”

However eyewitnesses arriving from the compound say there were no communications problems at the annex. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News reported that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators. Military officials in Benghazi told CNN that rocket-propelled grenades were among the heavy firepower used by the attackers at the annex, with one official saying mortars were also fired. Four mortars were fired at the annex. The first one struck outside the annex. Three more hit the annex. The two ex-SEALS (if there is such a thing) Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were part of a Global Response Staff or GRS that provides security to CIA case officers and provides countersurveillance and surveillance protection. They were killed by one of those mortar shells at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the Consulate began — a window that represented more than enough time for the U.S. military to send back-up from nearby bases in Europe, according to sources familiar with Special Operations.

Sources appear to claim that there were potential options that could have been pursued, although these avenues were reportedly not taken during the September 11 attack. While the forces available at Sigonella could have been flown into Benghazi in less than two hours, they, too, were also allegedly told to “stand down.” Around 3 a.m. that evening, a pro-U.S. Libyan militia finally showed up at the CIA annex. And an American Quick Reaction Force that was sent from Tripoli arrived at the Benghazi airport at 2 a.m., but was delayed for 45 minutes over transportation confusion. In both instances, though, the arrivals were hours after the initial attack took place.

Only several hours after the annex was finally evacuated did US officials even know the fate of Ambassador Stevens. A hospital doctor started randomly dialing numbers in a cell phone belonging to a corpse dropped off at his medical facility. One of those calls was to the US embassy in Tripoli. The corpse turned out to be the ambassador.

A third email, also marked SBU and sent at 6:07 p.m. Washington time, to US based officials that carried the subject line: ‘Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack.’ The message reported: ‘Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.’

In addition there has been debate surrounding drones and whether or not U.S. officials had the ability to watch a portion of the Libyan attack in real time. Some have dismissed the notion that the battle was being viewed live by officials as it progressed. But an October 20th report from CBS News claims that a portion of the attack was potentially seen by officials. In fact, according to the network, “hours after the attack began, an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the protracted battle.” FOX, too, reported today that there were two military surveillance drones that were sent to Benghazi after the attack on the U.S. consulate began. Both of these drones had the capability to send images back to government officials, including the White House situation room.

Let me remind you that all of this Intel, this entire timeline was available to the President in the FIRST 24 HOURS. He knew all this, as well he should. Yet the Press Secretary, The Secretary of State, the UN Ambassador, and the President of the United States himself spent weeks emphatically claiming they had "concrete evidence" as Press Secretary Jay Carney put it, that this was not a premeditated attack in opposition to America or American policy, but rather a spontaneous protest turned violent over an obscure You Tube video which had 19 hits as of July 2012 (with surely millions more now that the administration made it famous). In fact the father of one of the fallen hero SEALS has disclosed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told him, at the receiving ceremony of the caskets, that they would get the maker of this film. THAT is the depth of deception they were willing to sink.

Why?

The Al Qaeda connections to Benghazi were well known. Images showing the black Al Qaeda flag being hoisted up over the city after the fall of Qadaffi were beamed to every corner of the earth. Al Qaeda and its affiliates had already attempted attacks on our consulate there, repeatedly, and even attempted to assassinate the British ambassador, our closest ally. The pattern of planned terror attacks was well-known. The new head of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had called for attacks on U.S. interests in Libya after a drone strike had killed a top Libyan al Qaeda operative. Our now-dead Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and his team had repeatedly reported the escalating violence and had repeatedly requested more security. They were denied.

Again, I ask why?

As far as I can tell there are four fundamental questions yet to be answered by the administration:
1.) Why were earlier requests to increase security repeatedly denied given the threat level was publicly known to be extremely elevated (particularly on 9/11)?
2.) During the attack why were requests for military back up, made in real time by trained men with eyes on, denied?
3.) Whose idea/plan was it to blame an obscure video?
4.) Why did the administration, including the President, agree to that plan?

“That is cowardice by the people that issued that order. And our country is not a country of cowards. Our country is the greatest nation on Earth. And what we need to do is we need to raise up a generation of American heroes just like Ty who is an American hero. But in order to do that, we need to raise up a generation that has not just physical strength but moral strength. We do not need another generation of liars who lack moral strength.”  

-Charles Woods, father of fallen SEAL Tyrone Woods on 10/26/12 responding to reports that back-up teams were repeatedly told to "stand down."